Using Twitter's Birdwatch dataset as of February 4, 2021, this plot shows the Twitter accounts that have had the highest number of Birdwatch notes upended to them by users in Twitter's pilot Birdwatch community content moderation program. More information about the data and the program itself is available in Twitter's documentation: https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/about/overview/

Top 483 accounts tweeting pro-Azerbaijan hashtags from July 13-July 18, 2020.

Despite efforts by major platforms to limit its spread, copies of the widely debunked conspiracy video “Plandemic” continued to multiply and spread largely through niche online conspiracy communities in early May 2020. The DFRLab used the CrowdTangle API and an R package called CooRNet, developed by Fabio Giglietto, Nicola Righetti, and Luca Rossi, to track the spread of the viral conspiracy through hundreds of Facebook groups. This document walks through the data analysis portion of the research, providing reproducible code for the key visualizations.

On Twitter, a number of accounts, primarily from Turkey, have been tweeting about the proposed connection between antifa (a loose grouping of typically leftist anti-facist activists) and the Kurdish militia operating in Syria, the YPG. This plot of creation dates shows that most of the accounts tweeting about the purported connection (which echos Turkish state propaganda) have been created recently.

This plot displays cumulative shares of a Typeform "national poll" asking, "Do You Believe George Soros Is Funding The Riots?" (https://trump.typeform.com/to/PCw5rY) on public Facebook pages and in public Facebook groups. The plot was made via the CooRNet R package (https://github.com/fabiogiglietto/CooRnet), with data obtained via CrowdTangle. The poll has been circulated widely in pro-Trump, far-right, and conspiracy communities throughout early June.